More than 200 arrested in cyber raids aimed at Middle East scam networks
2026-05-19T14:51:54Z•a574ad2434e07f0db6a4ac6aa36974f11f78bb57fd0dadaca9f03bbccde8650f
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What happened
Collection of security and cybercrime news: Interpol-led raids in the Middle East resulted in more than 200 arrests and discovery of hundreds of compromised devices used in scam networks; Grafana suffered a codebase theft and refused to pay the attackers’ ransom; OpenAI is rolling out a ChatGPT feature that connects users’ financial accounts, prompting expert privacy warnings; THORChain lost about $10.7M after one of its six vaults was compromised; and CISA ordered all federal agencies to patch an exploited Cisco SD‑WAN vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to skip‑
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